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CLINTON E. COE, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

FAUCET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 13, 1908.

Application filed September 6, 1905. Serial No. 277,150.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLINTON E. Con, a citizen of the United States, andresident of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Faucets, ofwhich the following is a specification. This invention relates to animprovement in that class of faucets known to the trade as Fullerfaucets.

The object of my invention is to provide a faucet in which the noise andrattle resulting w from the hammering of the valve when open, isobvlated without impeding to any great extent the free flow of waterpast the valve.

A further object is to provide novel means for guiding the valve in itslongitudinal movements and at the same time holding the valve in a verysimple manner against rotary movement whereby the friction between thevalve stem and the spindle eccentric is re duced, thus insuring a moreeasily operated valve. A practical embodiment of my invention srepresented in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 representsthe faucet in longitudinal central section, Fig. 2 is a horizontal 6C,t1011 taken in the plane of the line A-A of Big. 1, looking in thedirection of the arrows, and'l 'ig. 3 is a transverse section taken inthe plane of the line BB of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of thearrows. The body of the faucet is denoted by 1 and it is provided nearits inner end with an annular valve seat 2. This faucet body 1 has ascrew-threaded engagement with the pipe fitting 3, the pipe fitting inthe present instance having an exterior screw-thread and the inner endof the faucet body having an interior screw-thread.

The handle of the faucet is denoted by 4 and its spindle 5 which passesthrough the packing box 6 into the interior of the faucet body 1, isprovided with an eccentric 7 which is arranged to engage the stem 8 ofthe valve 9 for the purpose of moving the valve toward and away from itsseat 2. This valve 9 is supported by the faucet body and is also guidedin its movements toward and away from its seat by providing the shell 10of the valve with oppositely arranged lugs 11, and 12 projecting fromthe sides of the said shell, which lugs are fitted to slide inlongitudinal grooves 13 and 14 in the bore of the faucet body adjacentto its inner end. The for ward part of the valve stem 8 is supportedwithin the faucet body as usual. In the construction as herein set forthit will be seen that the use of spiders on the valve stem or in thefaucet body or pipe fitting is obviated, the valve at the same timebeing not only supported in concentric relation to its seat but alsobeing guided toward and away from its seat without unduly closing thespace around the valve.

It will furthermore be seen that the construction as herein described isvery simple and is such that the valve and its stem may be readilyremoved from the faucet body when the eccentric has been withdrawn fromits engagement with the valve stem and the faucet body has beenunscrewed from the pipe fitting, the longitudinal grooves which formpart of the tongue-and-groove connection between the valve and thefaucet body being open at their rear ends when the faucet is removedfrom the pipe fitting.

Furthermore, by providing the lugs on the shell, I am enabled tomaterially simplify the valve construction.

hat I claim as my invention is:

A faucet body having an annular valve seat near its inner end, a handlehaving its spindle provided with an eccentric, a valve fitted to slidelongitudinally in the body portion of the faucet, said valve comprisinga head, a stem proper, and an enlarged portion at the end of the stemproper fitted to engage and be guided in its movement by the interiorwalls of the body portion of the faucet, said enlarged portion beingalso arranged for engagement 'with the eccentric, by the movement ofwhich the valve is moved toward or away from its seat, a valve shell atthe outer end of the valve, oppositely arranged lugs projecting from theshell and longitudinal grooves in the bore of the faucet body, saidgrooves being open through the inner end of the faucet body forfacilitating the insertion and removal of the valve.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signedmy name in presence of two witnesses, this 1st day of September, 1905.

CLINTON E. COE. Witnesses:

KATH. M. WESTERMAN, FREDERICK L. PERRY.

